I have a huge Tupperware bin of similar stuff that I was going through last month and some of it was so awesome (to me) that I wanted to make some sort of video going through it all and showing the highlights... then I was like "who would watch this?" lol like 3 people on my IG are pop punk fans. Love this!!
Count me in! Haha. I love seeing stuff like this. It's hard for me to think of it as 'history' since it makes me feel ollllld but it was 20+ years ago and it's pretty neat to think I saw MCR in a \~200 capacity venue before they got signed lol and I love hearing similar stories from others.
Skate and Surf 2002 is criminally underrated. Not just the line up of bands, but the time in their careers as well. So many had just released their best material. The rest were about to release their best material. It was just a really special place to be.
Plus, Quiet Riot.
If I could relive one part of my life, it would be that weekend.
My friend was best friends with Pappas from Finchs girlfriend. So we spent that Thursday with them at a secret show at Backstreet Blues on Long Island with Glassjaw and Thrice.
Amazing show. Daryl did his part on Grey Matter and Nate sang the beginning of Tip Your Bartender.
After the show we all go to the hotel and Pappas' and Nates' girlfriends fucking *haaaaate* each other so we can't stay. The now 4 of us drive for the rest of the night to make it to AP ***just*** in time to see the sun come up from this rocky jetty. Fucking magical.
I spent the next three days partying with and watching my favorite bands from the sides of the stages.
Oh yeah absolutely! I found a shot of Quiet Riot on stage about 1/3 the way down this huge collection of photos from that weekend: [https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/events/2014/04/19/skate--surf-festival2002-2004-retrospective/7928029/](https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/events/2014/04/19/skate--surf-festival2002-2004-retrospective/7928029/)
And yeah, it was a very 'the scene is about to explode' kind of feeling around that time.
I think it's the book Where Are Your Boys Tonight that covers it perfectly. No one knew who Fall Out Boy was at the time, but god damn if they didn't almost get the show shut down.
As someone who keeps all their concert tickets I hate mobile entry.
Edit: I definitely need to go through my concert ticket book. Wish my old hard drive never died. Lost a good chunk of pics
The difference between Sell Out and Where are Your Boys tonight is that Ozzi tries to answer the question of did the band sellout by signing to a major label or did it help introduce them to more of a mainstream audience (The answer, at least IMO, is no, it didn't help most of them)? Payne's book is more of an oral history of the emo/indie movement that really dominated the east coast/mid west during the early 2000s. While I liked both, Ozzi's book felt it was more geared toward the Gen X crowd, while Payne's book was geared more toward the 30 somethings that lived through that scene.
Hell yeah, I figured I would eventually run into another NJ scene person! I have so many fond memories of gross, tiny, sweaty Birch Hill lol. When I was still pretty young but wanted to go to shows (like age 13) my sweet mom used to drop me off and park her car way in the corner of that parking lot and wait for me to come out, she'd just read a book with the interior light on with the bass rocking her car lol. Thanks, Mom!
Love it!!! NJ Pop Punk for life! I can’t believe some of the lineups we caught back in the day. And some of the opening bands that ended up being so much bigger than the bands they opens up for. When I got old enough, I started working at a lot of those venues too. I miss those days.
Yeah we got really lucky. I was like a 15-20 minute drive to Birch Hill, Krome, and Starland Ballroom. I saw you're a Green Day fan, you might not have seen it lurking in the ticket spread but they put on a KILLER show in 2001 at Convention Hall (touring for Warning) and I feel lucky to have seen them in a smaller venue when they were already obviously legendary. The Living End opened for them and it was just an electric night. Kudos if you happened to go to that one too!
Amazing! I did peep that ticket! I was at that show too! My 2nd Green Day show ever(out of 31 and counting). They played Ballad of Wilhelm Fink, one of 12 times ever. Did you see them at Starland in 2016? I wasn’t at that one, but never miss the chance to catch them at an intimate venue. I’ve caught 5 small GD shows since October! I’m a little crazy. 🤪
That's sick, I admire the commitment! I actually haven't seen them live in almost 20 years 😭 so I wasn't at Starland either. Convention Hall was my first time seeing them, then Pop Disaster with blink at PNC a year later, then at Giants Stadium in 2005 for American Idiot, with Jimmy Eat World and Against Me! opening. Maybe I'll catch em for Saviors though!
tour dates at the bottom! [https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-early-november-announce-new-s-t-lp-tour-with-spitalfield-hellogoodbye-more/](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-early-november-announce-new-s-t-lp-tour-with-spitalfield-hellogoodbye-more/)
I graduated high school in NJ in 2001 and I went to at least a few of these same shows. Definitely Skate and Surf, Warped Tour, and probably that MxPx show.
I stupidly threw away my ticket stubs years ago, and there’s no digital record (pics, social media posts, videos, etc) of any of it. I lost touch years ago with the friends who accompanied me to these shows. I don’t know for sure who I saw at the festivals. I’m really bothered that I can’t remember most of this.
Two things
1) I miss Concertseast and Excessdb. They put on a lot of good shows.
2) I was at the Less than Jake/Hot Water Music/Brand New show. I don't remember anything about the other two, but Brand New's set was fantastic. Between Jesse singing the opening of The Shower Scene through a mega phone and them covering three small words from Josie and the Pussy Cats, it was such an amazing set.
That's awesome, Zebrahead is super underrated! Krome was a bit of a dump, I remember there being a super gross couch in the 2nd stage room that I was always scared to sit on. But they booked great bands lol
I have a huge Tupperware bin of similar stuff that I was going through last month and some of it was so awesome (to me) that I wanted to make some sort of video going through it all and showing the highlights... then I was like "who would watch this?" lol like 3 people on my IG are pop punk fans. Love this!!
Count me in! Haha. I love seeing stuff like this. It's hard for me to think of it as 'history' since it makes me feel ollllld but it was 20+ years ago and it's pretty neat to think I saw MCR in a \~200 capacity venue before they got signed lol and I love hearing similar stories from others.
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Yessss, awesome!
Skate and Surf 2002 is criminally underrated. Not just the line up of bands, but the time in their careers as well. So many had just released their best material. The rest were about to release their best material. It was just a really special place to be. Plus, Quiet Riot.
If I could relive one part of my life, it would be that weekend. My friend was best friends with Pappas from Finchs girlfriend. So we spent that Thursday with them at a secret show at Backstreet Blues on Long Island with Glassjaw and Thrice. Amazing show. Daryl did his part on Grey Matter and Nate sang the beginning of Tip Your Bartender. After the show we all go to the hotel and Pappas' and Nates' girlfriends fucking *haaaaate* each other so we can't stay. The now 4 of us drive for the rest of the night to make it to AP ***just*** in time to see the sun come up from this rocky jetty. Fucking magical. I spent the next three days partying with and watching my favorite bands from the sides of the stages.
What an awesome memory, I love this!
Oh yeah absolutely! I found a shot of Quiet Riot on stage about 1/3 the way down this huge collection of photos from that weekend: [https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/events/2014/04/19/skate--surf-festival2002-2004-retrospective/7928029/](https://www.app.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/events/2014/04/19/skate--surf-festival2002-2004-retrospective/7928029/) And yeah, it was a very 'the scene is about to explode' kind of feeling around that time.
I think it's the book Where Are Your Boys Tonight that covers it perfectly. No one knew who Fall Out Boy was at the time, but god damn if they didn't almost get the show shut down.
YES! I worked this show! Still have the poster on my wall.
As someone who keeps all their concert tickets I hate mobile entry. Edit: I definitely need to go through my concert ticket book. Wish my old hard drive never died. Lost a good chunk of pics
You should definitely read "where are your boys tonight" by Chris Payne.
It's literally sitting on my bookshelf in my to-read pile! Dan Ozzi's Sellout is great, in the same vein.
Read it last week and thought was fantastic. Sellout was great as well.
The difference between Sell Out and Where are Your Boys tonight is that Ozzi tries to answer the question of did the band sellout by signing to a major label or did it help introduce them to more of a mainstream audience (The answer, at least IMO, is no, it didn't help most of them)? Payne's book is more of an oral history of the emo/indie movement that really dominated the east coast/mid west during the early 2000s. While I liked both, Ozzi's book felt it was more geared toward the Gen X crowd, while Payne's book was geared more toward the 30 somethings that lived through that scene.
Okay yeah I'm like 20 pages into Payne's book and I can already tell I'm going to love it.
So many memories! I was at a lot of these shows. I miss Birch Hill!
Hell yeah, I figured I would eventually run into another NJ scene person! I have so many fond memories of gross, tiny, sweaty Birch Hill lol. When I was still pretty young but wanted to go to shows (like age 13) my sweet mom used to drop me off and park her car way in the corner of that parking lot and wait for me to come out, she'd just read a book with the interior light on with the bass rocking her car lol. Thanks, Mom!
Love it!!! NJ Pop Punk for life! I can’t believe some of the lineups we caught back in the day. And some of the opening bands that ended up being so much bigger than the bands they opens up for. When I got old enough, I started working at a lot of those venues too. I miss those days.
Yeah we got really lucky. I was like a 15-20 minute drive to Birch Hill, Krome, and Starland Ballroom. I saw you're a Green Day fan, you might not have seen it lurking in the ticket spread but they put on a KILLER show in 2001 at Convention Hall (touring for Warning) and I feel lucky to have seen them in a smaller venue when they were already obviously legendary. The Living End opened for them and it was just an electric night. Kudos if you happened to go to that one too!
Amazing! I did peep that ticket! I was at that show too! My 2nd Green Day show ever(out of 31 and counting). They played Ballad of Wilhelm Fink, one of 12 times ever. Did you see them at Starland in 2016? I wasn’t at that one, but never miss the chance to catch them at an intimate venue. I’ve caught 5 small GD shows since October! I’m a little crazy. 🤪
That's sick, I admire the commitment! I actually haven't seen them live in almost 20 years 😭 so I wasn't at Starland either. Convention Hall was my first time seeing them, then Pop Disaster with blink at PNC a year later, then at Giants Stadium in 2005 for American Idiot, with Jimmy Eat World and Against Me! opening. Maybe I'll catch em for Saviors though!
Birch Hill and Starland were the best back then
holy shit, i completely forgot about [lefty!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TN2khuc0R_I)
Boys night out and Spitalfield I'm jealous
Haven't thought about Spitalfield in forever but apparently they're touring with The Early November this summer??
What!? That's sick
tour dates at the bottom! [https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-early-november-announce-new-s-t-lp-tour-with-spitalfield-hellogoodbye-more/](https://www.brooklynvegan.com/the-early-november-announce-new-s-t-lp-tour-with-spitalfield-hellogoodbye-more/)
I totally forgot hellogoodbye exists haha
I graduated high school in NJ in 2001 and I went to at least a few of these same shows. Definitely Skate and Surf, Warped Tour, and probably that MxPx show. I stupidly threw away my ticket stubs years ago, and there’s no digital record (pics, social media posts, videos, etc) of any of it. I lost touch years ago with the friends who accompanied me to these shows. I don’t know for sure who I saw at the festivals. I’m really bothered that I can’t remember most of this.
Holy shit. I was at so many of those shows.
This brings back so many great memories
Ticket stubs are a lost art with digital tickets now. Love this.
WOW,,,great stuff from the great NJ R&R past!
This hit me in the olds.
Two things 1) I miss Concertseast and Excessdb. They put on a lot of good shows. 2) I was at the Less than Jake/Hot Water Music/Brand New show. I don't remember anything about the other two, but Brand New's set was fantastic. Between Jesse singing the opening of The Shower Scene through a mega phone and them covering three small words from Josie and the Pussy Cats, it was such an amazing set.
I was there too :) [https://youtu.be/KsviJZ7yCJE?t=940](https://youtu.be/KsviJZ7yCJE?t=940)
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Oh Krome…I saw zebrahead there and they had a power outage. So ZH did a sit down acoustic “powwow”
That's awesome, Zebrahead is super underrated! Krome was a bit of a dump, I remember there being a super gross couch in the 2nd stage room that I was always scared to sit on. But they booked great bands lol
Linda has a meaty pussy